Album Reviews

Listening to Yachtclub101 is like triggering a soundtrack to the life you wanted to live before you realized you weren’t cool. In the new self-titled album, Yachtclub101 takes the fun of a synthesizer and drills holes only to fill those gaps with juicy pop and maybe even some sardonic folk. …

John Vento is a decorated and critically-acclaimed musician who hails from Pittsburgh, PA. A member of the Rock bands “The Businessmen” and “Nied’s Hotel Band” that are known for their high-energy and raucous style of music, Vento has been able to achieve a lot both with his collaborators and as …

Mother’s Day –The Mother’s Tale is a song so soulful and so emotionally resonant and tender that it hypnotizes the listener into an introspective trance. The song is off the album Traveler Tales by Virginia-based singer David Arn and features the talented songstress Ava Hart. Mother’s Day is a smooth, …

As sad as it is for me to admit as a rock critic, the genre is often picked apart and overanalyzed in 2020 to such an extent that some of the best talent in and outside of the American underground feel the need to get particularly intricate when making a …

Swirling around us in a colorful display of power and aesthetical hybridity, the melody in Will Jordan’s new single and music video “Back to Me” could prove too strong for some to handle, but for serious R&B fans like myself, it’s just what this autumn needed to feel complete. Based …

  There are songs which you have to listen to from beginning to end in order to decide whether the artist did a good job or not. With other songs however, all you have to do is listen through the intro and immediately the artist’s voice filters through the silence, …

Fitzsimon and Brogan, known as FaB, are a pop duo based in London whose music fuses pop and rock to create an alternative sound that has been the hallmark of their past three full-length projects. Their latest work This Wicked Pantomime brings out the best of Fitzsimon’s evocative songwriting and …

Aesthetically speaking ‘punk rock’ might be the best term for British songwriter YUNGBLUD, but in actuality this rising star is just one of the many new artists who have decided to embrace the genre-less ways of the new generation. Born Dominic Harrison, the star from Doncaster has found his place …

Cory M. Coons has etched an indelible mark in the genre of rock music. A multi-award-winning artist with a slew of chart-topping hits, Coon’s exceptional skill for making hit songs has only gotten better by the years, and his latest release is a testament to that fact. With “Burning Bright …

HeIsTheArtist is a unique artist just as his peculiar choice of name might suggest. Starting off as a secular musician doing R&B and dance music, Leeman Bassey switched to making Christian music after a sermon by world-reknown evangelist T.D Jakes inspired him so much that he decided to commit himself …

With a buoyant swell to its main beat, it’s clear from the jump that Keldamuzik and Hylan Starr aren’t looking to deliver a subtle collaborative single in the new release “Can’t Keep Up,” but instead something as robust as their personalities are. While Keldamuzik breaks off some righteous wit with …

There’s nothing quite as powerful as the rush that comes from hearing a really intense collision of bass, drums and guitar within an insular arrangement of beats and melodies, and in the new single “Disaster” from power quintet Ultra Major, the brawn of old school noise and stoner rock gets …